Teaching/Learning Center

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Zoom Guidelines:

• Ensure that you have a respectful, school-appropriate background. Be fully dressed.
• Though we appreciate that you are studying from your home or studio and the occasional appearance of a household or studio member may be unavoidable, actual class attendance and participation are limited to enrolled students, faculty, models, and invited visitors.
• While there are some good reasons to participate in class with your camera off, camera-on is preferred.  If you will be participating with your camera off, please continue to stay engaged through audio and chat.
• Eliminate distractions. Notifications from messaging applications, ringtones, and applications running on your desktop can be distracting. Mitigating these distractions helps keep the class focused and free from interruption. 
• When the class meeting ends, stick around for a bit if you have any questions for your faculty. 
• Zoom is your virtual classroom. Conduct yourself appropriately because you are in class.

Studio/LAS top tips for teaching in Zoom:

• If intending to stream for longer than 60 minutes, use break-out rooms or polls to keep students engaged 
• Larger meetings are harder to manage, consider meeting with students in small groups
• Bring class together for demos and then release them to work independently, follow up with 1:1 zooms
• When screen sharing, scroll slowly through content because it is difficult to see when moving fast and may cause headaches for participants.
• If recording, we recommend recording to your computer. You can retrieve the video file from your desktop.
• It is optional to use Zoom. If meeting with students synchronously in Zoom, you should also be on camera if they are on camera

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